Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
By Robert Roper.
Description
The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman.Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who led his men in twenty-one major battles―from Antietam to Fredericksburg, Vicksburg to the Wilderness―almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their moth...
ISBN(s)
0802715532, 9780802715531
